Calling all starships

Google must have really pissed someone off in China.

Not only have they built latency into Google services here so that they are virtually unusable, there is more.

To get around the embargo I use a VPN. But on any Wi-Fi connection I don’t even get the login page unless I close Chrome, Drive and the VPN software.

And Google isn’t doing themselves any favours elsewhere either.

They have started up the LOT consortium – an attempt to get all companies with phone patents (hardware and software) to sign a non-aggression pact, so that Google doesn’t have to worry about patent rights on it’s loss-leader software and hardware design products. It will just cream the cash off the advertising revenue.

Basically it’s an attempt to keep the rest of the supply-chain barefoot and pregnant.

They are starting to look and feel like Microsoft in the worst days of their monopoly, and in such arrogance do empires falter.